By Rachel Ruff “Caste, Class, and Race: Inequality and Reparations in the US and India,” a brand-new program from Duke Immerse designed by the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, offers Duke undergraduates an opportunity to spend the spring 2025 semester exploring group-based, systemic inequality with a focus on India and the United States,…
Cook Center Core Faculty Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards was quoted in SELF article discussing medical gaslighting and how to respond to it. Dr. Bentley-Edwards provided important advice for patients navigating their healthcare experiences. In the article, Bentley-Edwards emphasizes the importance of being prepared for medical appointments, suggesting that patients identify their top three concerns to discuss…
A new episode of Sanford’s Policy 360 podcast takes a deep dive into one of the key issues shaping the 2024 election: racial wealth inequality and its influence on social policy. William A. Darity Jr., the Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor and Cook Center Founding Director, joins the discussion with interim Dean Manoj Mohanan from…
Cook Center Postdoctoral Associate Elizabeth Degefe coauthored a piece in The Fulcrum. In the piece titled, The propaganda of ‘meritocracy’, Degefe and her co author, Jelani Ince, discuss current interpretations of merit and its effect on discussions of diversity, inclusion, equity and opportunity. Elizabeth is a Postdoctoral Associate in Duke University’s Samuel Dubois Cook Center…
Cook Center Doctoral Fellow Arko Dasgupta recently wrote a piece for the India International Centre Quarterly Journal. This piece, titled “Kala Bagai: An Early Indian Woman in America”, is an exploration through the life of Kala Bagai and the complexities immigrants starting a life in the United States face. Dasgupta was also featured in the…
Cook Center Core Faculty Keisha Bentley-Edwards was interviewed for the “Silence in Sikeston” documentary and in the “Silence in Sikeston” podcast episode, Racism Can Make You Sick. These projects tell the story of the 1942 lynching of Cleo Wright and the ensuing failure of the first federal attempt to prosecute a lynching. In the episode,…
Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein provided comments on recent use of Medicaid to expand health services provided to incarcerated individuals before their release in NC Health News article. Dr. Brinkley-Rubinstein, a professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine explains that this new use provides vital care as…
Cook Center Core Faculty Keisha Bentley-Edwards was interviewed for an article in The Charlotte Post on the bias that remains in medicine and higher Black mortality rates. Dr. Bentley-Edwards, the Associate Director of Research and Director of the Health Equity Working Group for the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and an Associate Professor…
Duke Today has spotlighted the Hank & Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars program, recognizing it as “one of the few opportunities in the state for young people to get experience in conducting interdisciplinary social sciences research.” “This program underscores the importance of conducting credible research and examines how research can shape different aspects of society….
Dr. William A. Darity Jr., the Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Cook Center at Duke University, was recently quoted in an article examining how the legacy of slavery impacts the wealth of US legislators today. Dr. Darity emphasized the country’s history of racist policies and practices ripples into the present…